Amazon Web Services outage takes leading websites and services offline

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October 20, 2025

HUNTSVILLE — The Amazon Web Services computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world this morning, according to multiple reports.

AWS provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies.

On Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many other services. Coinbase and Signal both said on X that they were experiencing issues related to the AWS outage.

A status message from AWS just after 6 a.m. Central Time said it had “fully mitigated” the main problem and that most services have now recovered, though there may be some ongoing disruption as it works towards a full resolution.

According to the Associated Press, which also uses AWS, the first signs of trouble emerged at around 2:11 a.m. Central Time, when Amazon Web Services reported on its Health Dashboard that it is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region.”

Later the company reported that there were “significant error rates” and that engineers were “actively working” on the problem.

Around 5 a.m. Central Time, the company said that it was seeing recovery across most of the affected services.

“We can confirm global services and features that rely on US-EAST-1 have also recovered,” it said, adding that it is working on a “full resolution.”

Downdetector.com reported the following sites have been affected: